- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 14:38:22 -0500
- To: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>, w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Good point. Will update the guidelines. Jon At 01:32 PM 6/18/98 -0400, Liam Quinn wrote: >The current UA Working Draft states that 'In the case of the APPLET >element, the values of the "alt" or "title" attributes (in order of >preference) should be used.' [1] Why not use the content of the APPLET >element first, since it is not limited to plain text (as with "alt" and >"title")? > >(From an author's point of view, the "alt" attribute is useless on APPLET >since all browsers except HotJava make the sensible choice to use the >content of the APPLET element as an alternative to the applet.) > >[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-WAI-USERAGENT/#Alt-apps > >-- >Liam Quinn > Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: 217-244-5870 Fax: 217-333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund http://www.als.uiuc.edu/InfoTechAccess
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